Did Anyone Else Think Sato's Turnaround was Too Quick?

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His turnaround happened because the script said so.

Personally, I think it was all a ploy. Sato Enterprises had a subsidiary that was involved in a joint venture with a subsidiary of Dynatox Industries, based in Borneo. The idea was to get Miya-GAY to spend all of his money rebuilding Yukie's house. In the meantime, Sato's US subsidiary, Reseda Realty, bought the rundown apartment complex where Miya-GAY was employed as the (non) maintenance man, stealing supplies & materials and generally neglecting his duties. Reseda Realty then transferred title to Silver-Kreese Ventures, which farmed out the demolition contract to Chozen Demo Corp. Without a maintenance job and having spent all of his money on rebuilding Yukie's house, Miya-GAY was in desperate straits. His special pension for Medal of Honor winners was being garnished to pay for civil claims from the mother's of young boys who lived in the apartment complex (Freddy Fernandez among them) who accused Miya-GAY of sexual assault. While no charges were filed, Miya-GAY did lose a civil judgement, and this pension garnishment placed even further strain on his finances.

What Mr. Sato didn't anticipate was the level of stupidity inherent in Danielle LaPusso. He couldn't know that Danielle would pilfer his college funds (the trust containing $3,000 and a couple of bottles of Two Buck Chuck passed on from his Uncle Louie) to finance Miya-GAY's retirement dream of a Bonsai Crap Shack. This fly in the ointment was a temporary derailment of Mr. Sato's plans to secretly ruin MiyaGAY, however.

After the events that took place at the end of KKIII, Mr. Silver and Mr. Sato meet in a luxury hotel in downtown Honolulu. There, they devise a plan to humiliate and ruin MiyaGAY forever. However, MiyaGAY, without telling Danielle, had secretly moved to Las Vegas, where he lived under the name Arnold Rothstein until his death by alcoholism a few years later.

Danielle had a sex change and moved to Boston under the assumed name Julie San, where he was trained in the art of gay escorting by an Asian-American mentor who went by the name Won Hung Lo.

Mr. Sato and Mr. Silver both went on to make huge fortunes during the dot.com era, by backing a joint startup called www.cowardslope.com

His problem was with myagi no one else. He wasnt a Villian that wanted to hurt everyone. He had no reason not to save the kid and well it wouldn't take to much to realise how screwed up you are by still obsessing over something that happened when he was 18 in his 60s. Also he saw myagi saving him and others and realised he was acting with honour more than what he would've done

Earlier in the movie he asks what has happened to you and you see a look on his face where he looks guilty so he was thinking it beforehand

That's the cheesy 80's for ya!

Was Sato's turnaround too quick? Sure --- but at least he had one!

The same cannot be said for the KK's other one-dimensional cartoon caricature villains who never had any turnaround and who stayed cartoons forever, i.e. Kreese & Terry, even though they have way more fanboys behind them than Sato does. Sato is Hamlet in comparison to Kreese or Terry, LOL!

Personally, I thought it took him way too long.

When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.